Panda Touch and Orca Slicer?

Bambu Lab P1 Series User Mods
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A couple of months ago on a whim I bought the BTT Panda Touch but I haven’t bothered to set it up yet. Pretty much the only reason I bought it was the ability to “control” up to 10 printers. I have 1 X1C, 3 P1P and 4 P1S printers.

I use Orca Slicer to slice models and send prints to individual printers over the cloud. My printers are in a separate room from my office/PC. How does sending prints work with the Panda Touch? I was hoping to just be able to send a print from within orca slicer the same way I do now, but just send it to several printers at once. Is that possible? Or do I have to actually use the touch screen Panda to send a print to multiple printers?

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So in theory I should know the answers to this because I’ve had the touch hooked up for quite a while now… but I haven’t really explored the “group” function much. I just went researching and I found this:

If you scroll down to the “Group Printing” section it looks like it’s only possible with files stored on the USB connected to the touch.

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Now about Orca, nothing will change once you hook the Touch up. Everything will look the same in Orca. After reading that though I do want to check out the group thing, I knew the Touch could control all your Bambu printers but I didn’t know it could do multiple at once.

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Thanks, that’s the answer I was expecting but I hoped I was wrong and that somehow it would be possible to send a print to multiple printers from my PC. For me, that makes the Panda Touch a nice cosmetic add on but pretty much useless as far as added functionality.

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True, the only thing I really use it for now is to update the filaments in the AMS after I swap them out so I don’t have to try and remember what I put where when I get to the other room where the PC is. Realistically I could use my phone for that too, or only buy Bambu filament lol. I want to believe that one day either Bambu or Orca will add the functionality to send to multiple printers in to the slicer.

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It’s already there?

https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/software/bambu-studio/multi-device-management#sending-a-job-to-multiple-devices

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I use this quite often. It’s nice you can stager the prints so they don’t all start/ finish at the same time.

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Interesting. I’ve never used Bambu slicer, only Orca from the start. There is a long standing request with Orca to enable multiprinter support, and it seems like if Bambu has implemented this it might not be hard for Orca to do it either.

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Oh my god, when did they add that??

Edit Just found it on the Wiki… looks like 6 months ago lol. I need to start reading change logs when I update. As always, thanks for teaching me something @JonRaymond.

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April 25th it released in beta.

May 13th as a public release.

It’s still a little handicapped in my opinion as it maxes out at 6 printers I believe. I really hope this is expanded at some point.

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FYI
Click spool

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Now that I did know about… unfortunately a huge portion of my filament isn’t Bambu. Change your desiccant, you’re in the danger zone! lol.

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I’m aware.
I’m in the process of assembling an air dryer that holds about a gallon of Blue–>Pink silica desiccant which will then maintain a dry air positive pressure to my AMS’s. My nylon and abs I keep in a SUNLU S4 with the timer set to 99 hour run time.
PLA doesn’t seem to be bothered by it.

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